Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week NLRB, which has no power to enforce its rulings, took the first step toward a Supreme Court decision, asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan to enforce its order against the hiring halls run by Joe Curran's National Maritime Union on the Great Leaks...
...accomplishment of which he was proud was the Washington Naval Conference, which in 1922 seemed like a long step toward peace. He resolutely refused to recognize the revolutionary government of Russia, declaring that "no state is entitled to a place within the family of nations" if it repudiates the rights of private property. He was wildly attacked for this stand...
...where was that? That was where the last Foreign Ministers' Conference broke up eight months ago in London, angry and in almost complete disagreement between Russia and the West. To return to that ill-fated council table might be a proper and necessary step, but it would not be an occasion for ringing bells to herald peace or springing the doves for joyous flutterings...
Commerce. The Department of Commerce said that U.S. exports slumped 8% in June, down $89,800,000 from May's $1,102,900,000. Imports rose $66,300,000 to $615,600,000. Much of the import increase was due to a phenomenal step-up in British exports to the U.S. For the first six months of 1948 they ran 50% higher than in 1947, and paid for one-third of Britain's U.S. needs...
Among the river's 14 major competing lines, the biggest is the Government-owned Federal Barge Lines (19 towboats, 281 barges), which was started in the Wilson administration to step up river traffic in World War I. (Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. owns 14 towboats and 400 barges, but they serve only that company.) Next come St. Louis' Mississippi Valley Barge Lines, Pittsburgh's Union Barge Line and the American Barge Line Co. of Jeffersonville, Ind. On their newest craft, the skippers don't have to smell their way through fog, as Sam Clemens and Steamboat Bill...